Viking Britain by Thomas Williams ISBN 9780008171940, 0008171947 instant download

Viking Britain by Thomas Williams ISBN 9780008171940, 0008171947 instant download

A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields. Britain in the Viking Age was a turbulent violent place, and the war-lords of the age have names that fire the blood and stir the imagination – Alfred the Great and Ivar the Boneless, Edmund Ironside and Erik Bloodaxe, Macbeth and Thorfinn Skullsplitter (to name but a few). The way in which their stories intersect with real places offers potential for a richly textured narrative. By drawing together narrative history, new academic research and first-hand experience, Tom Williams offers a vital evocation of a forgotten world, its echoes in later history and its implications for the present. A 'Viking Britain' truly existed, and its historical and cultural footprint is in many ways broader and deeper than Rome's. Between the conventional beginning of the Viking Age in the...